Tag: marathon

There are no statistics backing it up, but cycling is undoubtedly the fastest growing sports activity in Slovenia. Every spring there appear more Slovenians on the road riding a bike. This fact is supported by increasing bike sales and the arrival of new bike shops in the last five years. In Slovenia more bikes are sold per capita than in any other European country. Because people … Continue reading How more Slovenians get hooked on the bike

There they are walking on the sidewalk of Slovenska Cesta in Ljubljana. Two men with legs so skinny that you wonder how they can carry grown men. But the legs of Kenyans Jacob Yator and Stephen Kipkoech Kibiwott are capable of carrying them at speeds some people have trouble reaching by bike. Yator and Kipkoech Kibiwott are top runners. At half past ten in the … Continue reading Men carried by toothpicks

Running has a special effect on the human face. When some people start running their faces become unrecognizable. At the Ljubljana Marathon on Sunday 27 October I shot 225 portraits of people that ran by. In this photo mosaic you can see the wide diversity of facial expressions of 225 runners of the Ljubljana Marathon. Click the mosaic to enlarge. Continue reading Faces of the Ljubljana Marathon